Happy New Year Wish for you from AL & The AL Grant Realty Group

There is a right way and a wrong way to make a New Year’s resolution. Here are a few expert tips to see that your resolution actually makes a difference:

1. Create a Plan Setting a goal without formulating a plan is merely wishful thinking. In order for your resolution to have resolve, (as the word "resolution" implies), it must translate into clear steps that can be put into action. A good plan will tell you A) What to do next and B) What are all of the steps required to complete the goal.

2. Create Your Plan IMMEDIATELY If you’re like most people, then you’ll have a limited window of opportunity during the first few days of January to harness your motivation. After that, most people forget their resolutions completely. It is imperative that you begin creating your plan immediately.

3. Write Down Your Resolution and Plan myGoals.com exists to help you formulate a plan, which we then help you stick to. But even if you don’t use myGoals.com, commit your resolution and plan to writing someplace, such as a notebook or journal.

4. Think "Year Round," Not Just New Year’s Nothing big gets accomplished in one day. Resolutions are set in one day, but accomplished with a hundred tiny steps that happen throughout the year. New Year’s resolutions should be nothing more than a starting point. You must develop a ritual or habit for revisiting your plan. myGoals.com helps you stick to your plan by providing email reminders that arrive when it’s time to work on a given task.

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5. Remain Flexible Expect that your plan can and will change. Life has a funny way of throwing unexpected things at us, and flexibility is required to complete anything but the simplest goal. Sometimes the goal itself will even change. Most of all, recognize partial successes at every step along the way. Just as a resolution isn’t accomplished the day it’s stated, neither is it accomplished the day you reach your goal. Rather, it’s accomplished in many small increments along the way. Acknowledge these incremental successes as they come.

Every day the AL Grant Realty Group will be sharing with you some helpful Productivity, Self Help Hints, and Tips. For work, life, reaching goals, and etc…. Stay Tuned with the AL Grant Realty Group as we count down to 2012

Remember no matter what happened… It’s been a GREAT year but next year is going to be TEN times BETTER….

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